Seems the Auto Industry is not the only place for electric mania to take place, Boating with the massive torque is taking off but without all the gov incentives. Seems rich folks love the power while being quiet.

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Seems the Auto Industry is not the only place for electric mania to take place, Boating with the massive torque is taking off but without all the gov incentives. Seems rich folks love the power while being quiet.

Boats seem like the worst segment to crack into because there's no regenerative braking in water and they're so restrictive in water it would be like a car constantly towing something except worse.

That Jolt has a definite Cadillac ELR vibe but it would never work. To get EVs truly into the mainstream conscience, you have to start with CUVs sadly. Once that happens, then niche cars like the Jolt idea can be explored.

This is based out of West New York, NJ and the then new teacher Ron Grosinger who started teaching Auto shop class at the school in 2005 was faced with figuring out how to survive with an electrive class that had gone from 6 to 2 teachers, rarely had hands on training and only 27 students.

Today the Auto Shop program has 4 teachers and is nearing his goal of 50/50 young men and woman.

Seems Woman like the cleaner EV approach over the ICE approach.

Over all a great read on how one man is making a difference to drive interest back into the youth over auto's.

Some thing we ALL SHOULD WANT for the long term life of the auto industry.

Generative design is a computing process that mimics evolution to create natural-seeming shapes that maximize strength while minimizing weight!

What does this have to do with the Random EV channel you might ask?

Plenty, Seems innovation is beginning again with America. Specifically what VW largest office outside Germany which is located in Silicon Valley with more than 180 engineers, designers, researchers and social scientists.

VW has allowed this California office to run more like a college campus and the question was asked of how would you blend the BEST of Volkswagen's heritage while embracing the future.

The answer is a team of 25 that took less than 6 months to take a 1962 Type 2 11 window Microbus, strip it down to the bones and rebuild it as a modern 21st Century electric Microbus with 120-hp electric motor and a 10 kW battery pack fitting into the same space of the original power train.

Tons to read about all the future stuff put into this Microbus from the microphones and cameras to the voice enabled access system, lighting, the ultra light weight steering wheel and wheels to the mirror support and seat supports. The Microbus weights less than what it did as an ICE Microbus.

Interesting story but one of the futurist of the auto industry is expecting EVs to reach price parity with ICE auto's by 2023 and ice auto production to cease by 2026.

To quote the writting:

Wills, the managing director of advisory firmFuture Smart Strategiesand a board member of remote energy services provider Horizon Power, stated that the future of the automobile is coming, and it’s approaching far quicker than what many expect.

“The future is coming faster than we think. And when it arrives, we always say it was faster than we thought,” he said in a statement toThe Sydney Morning Herald.

The thinking is that we will shift faster to EVs than the long drawn out process of moving to Hybrids and this Wills believes is being shown in the fast drop of the Prius line in sales and people waiting for the roll out of EVs from the auto industry.

Ford is officially on record that once we reach autonomous auto's they will be crushed after 4 years of use as the ability to recycle them will be faster and the desire for electronic tech in the latest auto will not decrease demand for buying an auto, but increase it as people will want to swap out auto's at a far more frequent pace and a month auto payment will be normal for ever like electric bills.

Seems like the first tests of building model 3 cars at the China Tesla Gigafactory are going well and the first one is expected off the assembly line Aug 29th. Leaked pictures show the first few auto's going through the assembly process.

Sounds like the challenge should be to make a Chevy Trax EV cheaper than the ICE version. Same with Equinox and Traverse.

Seems people keep thinking that Economy of Scale will never happen to EVs unlike how it happened to ICE. Early 1900's you had people that laughed at the auto and said the Horse and buggy would never die.

Amish continue to prove you can survive living in the past at a static point in time, but clearly not scaling up like modern society.

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It will happen one day, just not any day or year soon. Certainly not by “2023” or “2025” as recent articles have proclaimed.

RE the early days of the auto, you were changing the very means of conveyance. In order to mimic todays IC vs. EV, you'd have to try and convince the Year 1900 consumer to trade his horse conveyance for a cow.

It will happen one day, just not any day or year soon. Certainly not by “2023” or “2025” as recent articles have proclaimed.

RE the early days of the auto, you were changing the very means of conveyance. In order to mimic todays IC vs. EV, you'd have to try and convince the Year 1900 consumer to trade his horse conveyance for a cow.

I will agree to disagree with you on this as the ice versus ev is no comparison to a horse and buggy versus cow. Electric is certainly no cow.

It's not possible to message you. At least, it wasn't possible to do that last summer. So I'll post it here. I had a crazy layover back in June at PHL ... for about 8 hours ... and wondered how far into NJ you were from Philly. What I did is get the PHLash day pass and did the self-guided tour of Center City before heading back to the airport. I stayed too close to the center because of time. I actually wasted time by going into South Philly. I wanted to venture out onto the Main Line and see Villanova. That rail line was included on the pass I bought. I had to manage my time because of the late afternoon flight to the Coast. Cheers.